5 Best DS Emulator for Android 2018 (Paid and Free)

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Nintendo DS was a very popular handheld retro gaming console which was discontinued in 2013 but still, you can still enjoy all DS games using DS emulator on your android mobile. DS emulators are very similar to the original Nintendo DS consoles as they are also touch screen and multiscreen. Also, you get more frames than the original DS console if you have a high-end Android mobile. While the display can become fuzzy if the game resolution is lower than your mobile resolution.

The sad part is that there is less development of the DS emulator for android. Still, by doing deep digging in the Google Play store, I have found some of the most stable and best DS emulators for android for 2018.

Keep in mind that emulator’s performance depends upon your mobile’s hardware. An octa-core CPU of a mobile will perform better than a quad-core or dual-core CPU. So here is the list of best DS emulator for android for 2018.

EmuBox

EmuBox is an all-in-one retro gaming package which supports, – NDS emulator, PSX (PS1) emulator, SNES emulator, GBC emulator, NES emulator and GBA emulator on your android mobile. It allows you to save your game progress upto 20 slots so that you don’t have to start all over again. In order to eliminate lag, you can optimize your game’s performance by doing tweaks in settings. The app will automatically scan for all the game file from your internal storage. The best feature I like about this emulator is that it focuses on your main screen rather than the radar screen. There are many other features that I have listed below.

DraStic

DraStic is the most stable DS emulator you can get for you android phone right now. Perhaps it’s the only finished product that can enhance the 3D graphics by twice the original resolution (requires quad core android mobile). So if you need traditional Nintendo DS experience, I would recommend you to install this application. Overall, it is a very simple yet powerful emulator for NDS.

CPU Studio

This DS emulator will split your screen into two parts so that you can see your character and radar at the same time, just like a native console. It comes with buttons by default but if you don’t like button, you can hide them. It also comes with the options to change the screen layout of your mobile screen. You can make checkpoints by saving the game file before exiting it. When you relaunch the application, you will see an option to continue again. That’s a really helpful feature of this DS emulator.

MegaNDS

Here is a multilingual DS emulator for your android device. This emulator is fast and full-featured to run any Nintendo DS game. Even on a budget smartphone, it gives a great performance by rendering smooth, multi-threaded graphics and it also has in-game anti-aliasing for more sharp and clear view. MegaNDS is one the new but stable emulator that supports .nds, .zip, .7z, .rar file formats. You can also optimize the ARM processor engine by selecting a threaded interpreter from the settings.

RetroArch

This emulator always comes to my mind because it is also a multi emulator app. It gives you a decent frames of 40-60 on a quad-core processor. The graphics can be changed from the settings and it can go beyond 1080p but you will get lesser frames by doing this. So better choice is to stay with 256 x 192 resolution on budget smartphones. Also, if you experience low frame rate, kindly lower the resolution and increase CPU cores to the maximum from “Options”.